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We tossed Nikon's new 70-20mm F2.8 workhorse on a D5 and sat on the sidelines for a University of Washington vs Arizona State NCAA basketball game. It proved to be an impressive combo, to say the least. Have a look through our updated sample gallery and see for yourself. All basketball images were processed in Adobe Lightroom CC with adjustments made to exposure and tone only.

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The art of photography lost one of its most influential and controversial voices today. Ren Hang, a renowned and oft-censored Chinese photographer whose work has been displayed around the world, died this week. He was... more

Hot on the heels of Sony’s “world’s fastest SD card” announcement, the SD Card Association has announced a new, much faster standard for SD and microSD memory cards: UHS-III.

UHS-III doubles the already “ultra high speed” transfer capabilities of UHS-II, raising the bar from 312MB/sthe maximum theoretical... more

For as long as Ive been photographing, Ive always had a soft spot for gear and the technical side of photography. In the beginning, I was obsessed with getting the best camera I could afford, which, ironically, was a refurbished entry-level Nikon DSLRnot exactly the pinnacle of camera technology at the time.

For the years following, I shot with Nikon DSLRs and these cameras are the ones with which I first started my photography career. At the time my needs for a camera were... more

Nikon has been conspicuously silent since the Japanese camera giant suddenly cancelled their long-awaited Nikon DL line released a “recognition of extraordinary loss.” But Nikon executives broke their silence yesterday... more

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One lens' bad fortune is our gain: the Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM's optical test results had been puzzling the team at Lensrentals, and when a customer dropped one recently a teardown was in... more

Just a few days after Intel wowed audiences with a 300-drone aerial light show at the Super Bowl, Chinese drone company EHang raised the bar with a 1000-drone light show for audiences in China.

EHang performed its 'Meteor Sky' show in the city of Guangzhou in celebration of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival on February 11. To create the spectacle, the company... more

Memory and memory accessory company Delkin Devices has announced a new multi-format card reader that will be compatible with the CFast standard. DDreader-48 uses a USB 3.0 interface and can facilitate data rates of up to 500MB/s with CFast 2.0, SD UHS-ll and microSD UHS-l memory cards. While the SD and microSD formats cant yet test the readers transfer speeds on their own the extra capacity in the pipeline allows the reader to read or write from or to each of three slots simultaneously to... more

CP+ 2017: Nikon shows off 100th Anniversary D5 and D500

Nikon is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and as part of the celebrations, the company has unveiled special editions of its professional D5 and D500, alongside the 'holy trinity' of F2.8 zooms.

Here's the D5, in its special gunmetal finish and special gunmetal flight case, with special... more

Many street photography tutorials discuss the same topics over and overfocussing techniques, composition, candid shooting, etc. However, I believe that one topic is underrepresented: storytelling.

Many composition principles in street photography are the same as in other kinds of photography. In addition, there needs to be some additional element of interest in the scene as wellan attention grabber. I mentioned in a... more

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